Larivee v. Vanasse

In 1931 the defendant’s testatrix, by writing to her son the plaintiff, who had been working and living in Detroit for some years, induced him to return to Salem to help her care for her daughter Zenaide who was ill and soon died. Another daughter, Irene, left home in 1934, The testatrix was then alone except for the plaintiff. When in 1936 the plaintiff proposed to return to Detroit, she promised him that if he would stay with her and care for her and her real estate as long as she might live, she would leave him *214at her death all her property except $10,000, $6,000 of which she intended to…